Tag: Shabazz Napier

Shabazz Napier for MIP? It’s not going to happen because his raw stats/minutes played are still on the low side, but it’s impressive how much he’s improved since last season. Yeah, his minutes have doubled which resulted in most of the gain in numbers, but he’s way more efficient and looks like a real NBA…

Three straight 20-point games in a row for Shabazz Napier. I normally would say something like “who even needs Damian Lillard right now”, but I’m pretty sure that, despite this nice stretch for ShabazzleDazzle, LIllard remains the better player. Hot take, I know. What the Blazers could consider doing is maybe dialing back Lillard’s minutes…

With this game, it is CONFIRMED that Shabazz Napier is like a mini version of Damian Lillard except he doesn’t have a Soundcloud rap project. A Napier who was not a mini Damian Lillard wouldn’t have taken over this game the way this Napier did. When I saw he only had one point in the…

It took a while, but Shabazz Napier is now a better player than Shabazz Muhammad. It could just be because Muhammad is receiving literally no minutes right now, but you can not deny that Napier is scoring more points per game more efficiently than ever before. He’s actually… good! LeBron was right after all! With…

Shabazz “Shabazzledazzle” Napier has been marginalized for almost his whole time in Portland. If that’s even the right word. Either way, hard to get minutes when you’ve got an All-Star ironman playing ahead of you at your position. Every minute Lillard isn’t in the game for the Blazers feels like wasted time. Just like with…

LeBron must be sitting somewhere in Ohio, smirking at the box-scores on his phone and thinking, “I told everybody this guy can play”. Remember, the sole reason Shabazz Napier was drafted by the Heat in 2014 was because LeBron tweeted about him, and the Heat wanted LeBron to be happy. It was a classic case…

I’ve been crossing a lot of names off my to-do list as the curtains begin to fall on the 2016-17 season. Treveon Graham, Quinn Cook, Darrun Hilliard… Shabazz Napier? I thought this was a mistake at first, that I’d merely forgotten to cross off his name when I did an earlier video. But no! I’ve…

Shabazz “LeBron’s Birthday Present” Napier is on the Magic now? Okay. I guess I kind of knew he wasn’t on the Heat anymore. Why would he be, since he failed in what was his only task: keeping LeBron in Miami. That kind of failure doesn’t wash off easily. Imagine being known as “the dude who…

Damn, that would have been a great comeback for Shabazz Napier and the Heat. Down 35 and coming almost all the way back without Wade or Deng (or Chalmers, haha) is impressive, but ultimately doomed to be forgotten. Shab-wow played his part in the madness, hitting three consecutive triples late in the third quarter. He…

It seems kind of weird to say this, but we are now able to say the following sentence in reference to Shabazz Napier: “Starting point guard for a playoff team.” Isn’t that wild? I agree. It IS wild! We could perhaps modify the sentence to add “by default”, but let’s not discourage the young fellow….